As the whir of chopper blades reached my ears, a shadow fell across the gully. Clouds that hadn’t been in the sky earlier were drifting across the sun. Darker, grayer clouds had formed on the northern horizon, hiding distant Mount Baker from view. Below our lofty elevation, clouds had also drifted in over the lower peaks of the Cascades. Hopefully, if any precipitation came, it would fall below us.
“Colonel?” Banderas’s voice came over Pariah’s radio. “There’s nothing back here. No cave that continues on. Just a nook that the golem must have been waiting in. Behind it, the ice goes all the way down to the ground. It looks like it was deliberately knocked down, so we could try blowing another hole, but…”
Lieutenant Sabo spoke next. “I think they sealed this off completely and left that pr
